SIEGELMAN SPEAKS! EX-GOV CALLS '02 ELECTION "STOLEN" BY THE WHITE HOUSE! EXCLUSIVE TO NEWS FROM UNDERGROUND
Here is some amazing video: a very candid interview with Don Siegelman, who spoke to Julie Sigwart of Take Back the Media on Sept. 13, 2004--months before the Governor was finally put away on trumped-up charges by the Alabama GOP.
As he himself makes clear, Siegelman's ordeal began back in 2000, when he came out early on, and publicly, against the presidential bid of his fellow governor, George W. Bush, and backed Al Gore instead. It was a move that Karl Rove never did forget, and never would forgive, says Siegelman.
Rove's long drive to destroy the Alabama governor resulted in the theft of the 2002 election for Republican Bob Riley. Here Siegelman describes that theft--which took place primarily in Baldwin County--and also talks about his handling of that matter.
So far, the mainstream press coverage of Don Siegelman's ordeal has pointedly ignored the theft of the 2002 election. Clearly, Siegelman himself does not regard that theft as a side issue, but as a major crime, and one that is quite relevant to his whole story.
Today, the Alabama governor is not allowed to speak up on his own behalf. He's locked away inside a federal prison cell, and, for good measure, has been silenced by the Alabama courts. As Scott Horton has so aptly put it, Don Siegelman is the Man in the Iron Mask.
So let's do everything we can to get this interview played far and wide, so that his fellow citizens can finally hear him, and see him, talk about the criminal campaign against him.
MCM
As he himself makes clear, Siegelman's ordeal began back in 2000, when he came out early on, and publicly, against the presidential bid of his fellow governor, George W. Bush, and backed Al Gore instead. It was a move that Karl Rove never did forget, and never would forgive, says Siegelman.
Rove's long drive to destroy the Alabama governor resulted in the theft of the 2002 election for Republican Bob Riley. Here Siegelman describes that theft--which took place primarily in Baldwin County--and also talks about his handling of that matter.
So far, the mainstream press coverage of Don Siegelman's ordeal has pointedly ignored the theft of the 2002 election. Clearly, Siegelman himself does not regard that theft as a side issue, but as a major crime, and one that is quite relevant to his whole story.
Today, the Alabama governor is not allowed to speak up on his own behalf. He's locked away inside a federal prison cell, and, for good measure, has been silenced by the Alabama courts. As Scott Horton has so aptly put it, Don Siegelman is the Man in the Iron Mask.
So let's do everything we can to get this interview played far and wide, so that his fellow citizens can finally hear him, and see him, talk about the criminal campaign against him.
MCM
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Imagine if we discover the Bush regime has been 7 years in office Illegally; through fraud; and vote manipulation. That would be the most major felony of the century.
No kidding. That's exactly what we HAVE discovered. Please see my book, FOOLED AGAIN: THE REAL CASE FOR ELECTORAL REFORM, for the specifics. And to see exactly why this "major felony" is still unknown to most Americans, read the new afterword to that edition.
Just add this to the pile of outrages.
The only problem is, what can be done and who is going to do anything about it? Your writing draws (some) attention to things like this, but there never seems to be any real action from the political leaders that truly matters. At least not in terms of "pushing back" with any real meaning.
We can write or protest or march or whatever until we are blue in the face and the current political leaders can't (or worse won't) follow the will of the people who elected them.
I am completely disgusted by the Republican party, and am reaching a point of disdain for the current Democratic leaders and their refusal to grow any type of spine on seemingly every issue (including this one... You don't hear any of the "players" mentioning a thing about it).
I feel bad for Siegelman, he's gotten the shaft, and it seems no one went to bat for him until after the fact. It's kinda turning into "too little, too late" on this and other issues (like impeachment).
Why are the videos no longer available? Hmmm.
Dan Abrams of MSNBC had Scott Horton and Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) on his show Thurs last and vowed they were going to get to the bottom of this. Abrams said that since there was a new AG these cases of DOJ corruption would no longer fly below the Mainstream Media radar.
We are hoping MSNBC will go back to the election manipulation by Dan Gans in the Siegelman case so the public will be informed that their election system is broken and we are not all wearing tin foil hats. Thanks for these videos.
NOW LET'S GET THE GOV OUT OF PRISON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Indeed, this is primal !
America is one sad sick puppy in serious need of adult supervision ...
Just a hint : Before you export democracy, try having it at home !
Lynching by Laptop Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCR6IdTQTeE
Some of reasons explaining the statu-quo...
Highest Bidder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmhL8bjL9vc
" People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster."- James Baldwin
Meanwile...
"We are watching a poorly staged rendition of Wag the Dog , interpreted for the morbidly stupid and performed by the criminally insane." - Jules Carlysle
For indeed...
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry" - Frank Zappa
I'm glad people are finally beginning to pay attention to the Siegelman case. I have been following the situation for years. The steady march toward making Don Siegelman a political prisoner demonstrates that Americans must watch the government very carefully if they wish to remain free. The failure of the mainsteram media to devote more air time and collumn inches to what happened in the Siegelman case than they did with the scandal over firing a few US Attorneys is unforgivable. Terrible damage to our way of life and system of justice was done by the people who remained in the Department of Justice. Firing attorneys who would not move in lockstep with the extreme right wing is only the tip of the iceburg. Thanks for covering this.
The new year is just a few days away, and we are still looking back at the unbelievable events that have taken place in Alabama in regard to the sentencing of former governor Don Siegelman. We must now look forward and make our plans to regularly post information in blogs and editorials and to write new letters to Congress urging a thorough and relentless investigation of the outrageous acts that occurred in the persecution--prosecution of Don Siegelman. Every person must see the urgency in pressing for an investigation into this case because wrong does not correct itself, and this type of political manipulation of the justice system does not cease. It only increases! Tomorrow it could be anyone of us. We must speak out today. Who would have ever thought that Don Siegelman would no longer be able to speak in his own defense.
"It is Dangerous to be Right when the Government is Wrong."
- Voltaire [http://www.fdrs.org/patriotic_quotes_of_freedom.html]This story bears witness to the validity of Voltaire’s statement: http://www.donsiegelman.org/
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